Overhauling CUPS: Pushing Windows Printer Drivers - page 3

The Easy Way: Buy The Right Printer

July 27, 2006

By
Carla Schroder

If you don't have a Samba server already running on your network, here is a complete example configuration. All of your Windows hosts must belong to the workgroup named in smb.conf. Linux and Mac OS X don't care about workgroups, so don't worry about them.

First create these two directories:

# mkdir -m 777 /sharedstuff
# mkdir -m 777 /var/spool/samba

Then create this smb.conf, using your own LAN address and workgroup name: